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Countries

Wales

Total No. Of Countries

Rank: 14 (Overall)

0 46

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National Language

Wales

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Europe

Minority Language

Argentina, United Kingdom

Regulated By

Welsh Language Commissioner

Interesting Facts

One of the Celtic language still spoken with great numbers of speakers is Welsh language.
Welsh was evolved from British , which was spoken by ancient Britons.

Similar To

English Language

Derived From

British Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

Rank: 11 (Overall)

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

Rank: 4 (Overall)

0 32

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How Many Consonants

Rank: 11 (Overall)

9 60

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Scripts

Latin

Writing Direction

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Rank: 3 (Overall)

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks

Rank: 10 (Overall)

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

Helô

Thank You

Diolch

How Are You?

Sut ydych chi?

Good Night

Nos da

Good Evening

Noswaith dda

Good Afternoon

P'nawn da

Good Morning

Bore da

Please

os gwelwch yn dda

Sorry

Mae'n ddrwg gennym

Bye

Hwyl

I Love You

Dw i'n dy garu di

Excuse Me

Esgusodwch fi

Dialects

Dialect 1

Patagonian Welsh

Where They Speak

Argentina

How Many People Speak

38,000.00

Rank: 82 (Overall)

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Y Wyndodeg

Where They Speak

Gwynedd

How Many People Speak

700,000.00

Rank: 68 (Overall)

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Y Bowyseg

Where They Speak

Powys

How Many People Speak

700,000.00

Rank: 57 (Overall)

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

Rank: 8 (Overall)

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

7.40 million

Rank: 64 (Overall)

0 1200

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Speaking Population

0.24 %

Rank: 44 (Overall)

0 89

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Native Speakers

7.40 million

Rank: 56 (Overall)

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

0.70 million

Rank: 62 (Overall)

0.01 400

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Native Name

Cymraeg / Y Gymraeg

Alternative Names

Cymraeg

French Name

gallois

German Name

Kymrisch

Pronunciation

[kəmˈrɑːɨɡ]

Ethnicity

Welsh people

History

Origin

9th Century

Language Family

Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Celtic

Branch

Brythonic

Language Forms

Early Forms

Common Brittonic, Old Welsh, Middle Welsh

Standard Forms

Welsh

Language Position

Rank: 29 (Overall)

1 120

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Signed Forms

Welsh Sign Language

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

cym

ISO 639 2/B

wel

ISO 639 3

cym

ISO 639 6

cym

Glottocode

wels1247

Linguasphere

50-ABA

Types of Language

Language Type

Historical

Language Linguistic Typology

Verb-Subject-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional

Know Alphabets in Welsh

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Welsh Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Welsh Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Welsh. Welsh phonology gives Welsh vowels and Welsh consonants. There are 7 vowels and 21 consonants in Welsh language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Welsh is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Welsh language is given in detail in this section.

All Welsh countries

Want to explore all Welsh countries? About Welsh language serves you with all Welsh Speaking Countries. Countries that use Welsh as official language are called as Welsh countries.

Countries that use Welsh as their National Language are: Wales.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

Countries that use Welsh as second language are: Welsh is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Learn Welsh greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Welsh Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Welsh language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Welsh language.Learn Welsh greetings that can be used in formal situations:

Hello: Helô
Thank you: Diolch
Good Morning: Bore da
Good Evening: Noswaith dda
Good Afternoon: P'nawn da

All Welsh Language Codes

Get to know all Welsh language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Welsh Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.